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She talked about how we, people in developed nations, made decisions to throw things away and live on borrowed time while they, people like the Fijians, had to live with the outcome.

Now the Santa Monica lions, the only apex predator operating within a megacity, live on borrowed time.

I was reading again, recently, the autobiography of one of my favorite novelists, Graham Greene, and was struck by this sentence: ‘Perhaps, until one starts at the age of 70 to live on borrowed time, no year will seem again quite so ominous as the one when formal education ends and the moment arrives to find employment and bear personal responsibility for the whole future.’

Could it be that the Party’s ability to live on borrowed time is finally running out? 

Jeff Malec, chief executive of  Attain Capital Management in Chicago, pointed out, “The alternative calculation methodology functionally allowed MF Global to live on borrowed time — presenting themselves as more stable than they really were until the clock ran out.”